12/31/2020
A Washington state woman is recovering after a landmark organ transplant that she hopes will end her nearly decade-long bout with cancer. Kris Anderson, 51, of Redmond, received a lobe of liver from...
11/30/2020
Harborview Medical Center has been designated a Foster Care Center of Excellence by Coordinated Care, the managed care provider for the Apple Health Foster Care program. With this designation,...
10/30/2020
An innovative nanoparticle vaccine candidate for the pandemic coronavirus produces virus-neutralizing antibodies in mice at levels 10 times greater than is seen in people who have recovered from...
10/06/2020
Four faculty members at the University of Washington School of Medicine have received 2020 High-Risk, High Reward research grants, the National Institutes of Health announced today, Oct. 6.
These...
10/05/2020
Antibiotics may be a good choice for some, but not all, patients with appendicitis, according to results from the Comparing Outcomes of antibiotic Drugs and Appendectomy (CODA) Trial reported today...
09/09/2020
Computer-designed small proteins have now been shown to protect lab-grown human cells from SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
The findings are reported today, Sept. 9, in Science. ...
08/17/2020
A UW Medicine researcher, along with colleagues from Italy, Spain and Chile, have defined a new pediatric sleep disorder, which once diagnosed and treated, may help children and their parents get a...
04/16/2020
The bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, likely uses a single gene to escape the immune system, new research from UW Medicine in Seattle suggests.
The finding may help explain how...
02/21/2020
The spikes crowning the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 atypical pneumonia are divulging how they attach, fuse and gain entry to cells. Analysis of the spike architecture and its mechanics is...
02/11/2020
The composition of the gut microbiome may make a difference in height gain in infants with cystic fibrosis during their first year of life, according to a new study.
Many babies with cystic fibrosis...